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Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Re: Communication models
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Vitorino RAMOS |
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Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Re: Communication models |
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Fri, 24 Jun 2005 19:51:30 +0100 |
Darren, Parunak,
Thanks.
For more substantive info about Stigmergy please have a look on a special
issue dedicated to the subject at ARTIFICIAL LIFE, MIT Press Journal, vol.
5, issue 2, Spring 1999
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=5&tid=616 . I also
recommend the book "Swarm Intelligence" by Bonabeau and Dorigo.
For those looking on this type of indirect communication over dynamic
environments, I also have a very recent work, here:
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_59.html and a related video
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ICANN05-movie.gif
The work is compared with work based on social foraging in Bacteria.
Best, vitorino
~ v. ramos, http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos, "Interactions among
many sporuliferous and ubiquitous abstractions may lead to increasing
reality", V. Ramos, 2001.
At 19:30 24-06-2005, Parunak wrote:
Darren, Vitorino,
We offer a taxonomy of multiagent communications models that you might
find useful in the following paper:
H. V. D. Parunak, S. Brueckner, M. Fleischer, and J. Odell. A Design
Taxonomy of Multi-Agent Interactions. In Proceedings of Agent-Oriented
Software Engineering IV, Melbourne, AU, pages 123-137, Springer, 2003.
www.altarum.net/~vparunak/cox.pdf.
It categorizes agent interaction as direct vs. indirect and centralized
vs. decentralized; stigmergy falls into the indirect decentralized
category. It also relates communication to broader issues of correlation,
coordination, cooperation, and coherence.
Best,
Van Parunak
At 10:55 24-06-2005, Vitorino wrote:
Dear Darren:
Probably interesting to you as a lateral paradigm is the use of indirect
communication in a society via Stigmergy. The concept is one of the most
powerful examples of self-organization found in nature among real ants and
termites (eusocial insects) and widely use among the area of Swarm
Intelligence as well as in a variety of applications. Have a look for
instance here (PDF available):
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_58.html
or:
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_42.html
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_29.html
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_39.html
among other work examples. Hope these could be helpful. Best, Vitorino